On the bloody incident at Pantai Batu Burok, the prime minister had this to say and was duly quoted in NST : "They (Opposition supporters) would provoke the police until stern action is taken and then they would cry foul".

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's callous comment on inviting police brutality as a campaign tactic is reminiscent of Dr Mahathir Mohamed's off-the-wall innuendo that Anwar Ibrahim had socked his own self in the eye while in police custody.

The sitting PM and his men ensconced in media failed to commiserate with the unarmed victims who were shot by police and others injured in Terengganu it's lucky that bullets did not hit them in more vital organs to disable or kill.